09/13/2009

Champagne!

For this Wall Street Journal Magazine champagne story (I spent, let's see, two months closing?), I tasted some champagnes around the kitchen table--with the intend of finding champers that were worth their price tag.
All tasted blind, and then we drank the wines exposed, using it to wash down some excellent succotash, and eggplant gloop and a variety of cheeses that were pretty fabulous. (Cato Corners, an especially a firm and complex buffalo tallegio scored at DiPalo on Mott Street.
Tasters we had. Included were Honey Sugar, my old friend who swore off Clicquot when I took her to their vineyards. Lee Campbell! Gorgeous Lee who jumped the sommelier ship to sell wine for Joe.
The divine Pam Govinda Brooklyn GuyPeter Liem

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